Debian Bug report logs - #749801
xorriso: incompatible licenses?!

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Message #3 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: xorriso: incompatible licenses?!

Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:15:20 +0200

Package: xorriso
Version: 1.3.2-1
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: adequate incompatible-licenses

The xorriso's copyright file says:

Files: *
License: GPL-2

But /usr/bin/xorriso is linked to libreadline6, which is GPLv3+. These 
two licenses are not compatible.

But perhaps there's no license incompatibility, just a buggy copyright 
file? I couldn't find any evidence in the upstream code that the license 
is GPLv2-only. On the contrary, upstream COPYRIGHT file reads:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later as 
published by the Free Software Foundation.

So presumably debian/copyright should use this instead:

License: GPL-2+


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
 APT prefers unstable
 APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xorriso depends on:
ii  libacl1       2.2.52-1
ii  libburn4      1.3.2-1
ii  libc6         2.18-7
ii  libisoburn1   1.3.2-1
ii  libisofs6     1.3.2-1
ii  libjte1       1.19-2
ii  libreadline6  6.3-6
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

-- 
Jakub Wilk

Message #8 received at 749801@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>

To: 749801@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: xorriso: incompatible licenses?!

Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 08:40:50 +0200

Hi,

the libisoburn tarball which contains xorriso is indeed GPLv2+.
(The GNU xorriso package gets derived a GPLv3+ from this.)

Nevertheless it is not intentional that the binary from libisoburn
becomes GPLv3 by linking an optional library. Especially it then
still states at run time:
  $ xorriso -version
  ...
  Provided under GNU GPL version 2 or later

No reason to be sued, but somehow unfortunate.
I will have to think about this.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

Message #13 received at 749801@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>

To: 749801@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: xorriso: incompatible licenses?!

Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 16:00:44 +0200

Hi,

i asked bug-libreadline for advise how to detect GPLv3 versions.
The answer is: readline.h macro RL_VERSION_MAJOR >= 6 means GPLv3+.

There is no API call provided to detect the version at run time.
So Debian should please do its best to prevent libisoburn compiled
with libreadline-5 from running on libreadline-6.
I checked with a binary from SuSE 10 on Debian 6. It was linked
correctly with libreadline.so.5. So its statement GPLv2+ stays true.

After
  http://libburnia-project.org/changeset/5342
libisoburn compiled on Debian 6 with readline.h of libreadline-6
tells with command -version:

  Provided under GNU GPL version 3 or later, due to libreadline license.

The next release of libisoburn will be able to use libedit if
libreadline is disabled or not found.

So if Debian is interested in keeping libisoburn at GPLv2+, then
libedit would be a way to go. (I am testing it on NetBSD.)

  ./configure --disable-libreadline --enable-libedit

(In order to stay compatible with past behavior, --disable-libreadline
 alone disables any command line editor.
 By default libedit is a fallback for libreadline.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

Message #18 received at 749801-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>

To: 749801-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#749801: fixed in libisoburn 1.4.0-2

Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:21:38 +0000

Source: libisoburn
Source-Version: 1.4.0-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libisoburn, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 749801@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> (supplier of updated libisoburn package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:21:05 +0200
Source: libisoburn
Binary: libisoburn1 libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-doc libisoburn-dev xorriso
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 1.4.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Libburnia packagers <pkg-libburnia-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Description:
 libisoburn-dbg - debugging symbols for libisoburn and xorriso
 libisoburn-dev - development package for libisoburn
 libisoburn-doc - documentation package for libisoburn
 libisoburn1 - library to handle creation and inspection of ISO-9660 file system
 xorriso    - command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Closes: 688527 738359 749801 787793
Changes:
 libisoburn (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release. (Closes: #787793)
     + Bug fix: Command -blank "as_needed" formatted blank BD-R.
     + Bug fix: -as mkisofs option -log-file put the log file into the image
     + Bug fix: -cut_out did not add x-permission to r-permission of directory
     + Bug fix: Command -zisofs did not accept all options emitted by
                -status -zisofs
     + Bug fix: -blank force:... failed on appendable or closed media
     + Bug fix: Paths with symbolic links preceding ".." were not interpreted
                properly (Closes: #738359)
     + Bug fix: -blank force:all on DVD+RW had no effect
     + Bug fix: -dev or -indev of medium with non-ISO data caused SIGSEGV
                by NULL
     + New command -read_speed
     + New -close mode "as_needed", new -as cdrecord option --multi_if_possible
     + New -alter_date types: a-c , m-c , b-c , c
     + New -compliance rule joliet_utf16, new -as mkisofs option -joliet-utf16
     + New -find test -bad_outname, new -find action print_outname
     + New bootspecs hppa_*, new -as mkisofs options -hppa-* for HP-PA via PALO
     + New -find pseudo tests -use_pattern , -or_use_pattern
     + New -find action report_sections
     + New command -concat
     + New commands -report_system_area and -report_el_torito
     + New -find action "show_stream_id"
     + Optional libisofs interval reader with -append_partition and System Area
     + New -boot_image bootspec "appended_part_as=",
       new -as mkisofs option -appended_part_as_gpt
     + New API call isoburn_conv_name_chars()
     + New isoburn_igopt_set_relaxed() relaxation isoburn_igopt_joliet_utf16
     + New API calls isoburn_igopt_set_stdio_endsync() and
       isoburn_igopt_get_stdio_endsync
     + New API calls isoburn_igopt_set_appended_as_gpt(),
       isoburn_igopt_get_appended_as_gpt()
     + New API call isoburn_igopt_set_part_flag()
       and libisofs interval reader flags
     + New -report_system_area formats "cmd" and "as_mkisofs"
     + Corrected license statement if GPL-3 libreadline is linked.
       (Closes: #749801)
   * Closing older fixed bug: libisoburn-1.2.6 (Closes: #688527)
   * Removed dependency on doxygen
   * Added all content of libisoburn-*/doc/ to debian/libisoburn-doc.docs
   * Updated debian/local/libisoburn.3
   * Silenced warning of dpkg-buildpackage about libpthread by
     patches/01-silence-warning-libpthread.patch . (Also Applied-Upstream.)
   * Corrected license of upstream to GPL-2+ (from GPL-2)
   * Migrated to debhelper 9 and applied changes proposed by cme.
   * Added myself to Uploaders after becoming co-admin of the maintainer project
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